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Don’t despair, Aunt Jaime!

Hayden couldn’t keep his hands off Aunt Jaime’s face when she came over last week.

This week, she came over to show off this:

Last week I mentioned that they’re getting serious and now she’s officially engaged (or, as Dad likes to say it, en-gagged). He popped the question on Saturday while they were down in California for her to meet his parents. They sound like nice people.

Possibly the weirdest part? Jaime and her now-fiancé, Russel, dated the exact same amount of time that Ryan and I did before getting engaged. To the day.

The first question (after “Can I see the ring?”) is always “Do you have a date?” They’re getting married on November 18th. It’s a good choice for Jaime since she can take a longer vacation from work for her honeymoon with Thanksgiving, but traveling at that time is going to make our ticket prices higher (though hopefully not as high as at Christmas).

My mom had her heart set on having Baby’s First Christmas out there, but we can’t afford to fly out twice in two months. We were also planning on spending Thanksgiving with Ryan’s parents, especially since we could introduce Hayden to Ryan’s grandparents (they’re 89!) en route. I guess we’ll just have to switch the order of our trips.

Sigh. And I did so like our former plans.

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Kids/Parenting

Raisin’ him right.

What has Hayden so enthralled? What else . . .

Yeah, we’re raisin’ him right. Maybe we won’t need that college savings fund.
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Kids/Parenting

Bootie call


What did you expect? Thanks to Aunt Brookie for the adorable penguin booties. They’re the first “shoes” he’s worn. They stay on pretty well, too—a lot better than socks with the way he’s been kicking lately.

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Look, ma, no student loans! (hopefully)

We’ve had the paperwork for this since before Hayden was born, but we finally got around to sending it in a couple weeks ago. Then last week, we got this in the mail:

It seems like pretty much everyone agrees that Utah has one of the best 529s out there. I’m excited: I like planning for the future. I just hope we plan enough!

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Random Ryan/Married Life

Happy Anniversary!

Yep, right on the heels of my parents’ anniversary comes my own. I actually picked the day because I liked the date and because growing up I always thought today was my parents’ anniversary. I thought making it my own anniversary would help me to remember; instead, I mix them up constantly.

The last two years have been wonderful. It’s only been two years (and give me some credit for saying ‘only’), but I can’t really remember what it’s like to not have Ryan in my life.

It’s funny. My sister is seriously dating this guy, and to see them together and to know that they’re getting serious almost makes me jealous. It’s not that I want her boyfriend—naturally, I prefer Ryan. But to see them together is to remember what it’s like—the breathlessness falling in love and making big plans, the thrill of discovering someone who is just right for you, the excitement of getting to know him better and finding another way to love him and another way that he fits perfectly into your life with each new situation you find yourselves in.

At the time, it seems like it will never end. On one hand, it doesn’t end—but it does change. Either you get so used to the thrill that you become numb to it, or you become so used to being together that the thrill gradually fades to the background.

Either way, it changes. The breathlessness, the thrill and the excitement have been supplanted by sleeplessness, understanding, coziness and comfortableness.

While I was checking to make sure “comfortableness” was a real word, I came across this from WordReference, which I normally use for translations. The primary definition of comfortableness?

comfortableness
A noun
1 comfortableness
a feeling of being at ease in a relationship
Category Tree:

psychological feature

â•šfeeling

â•šhappiness

â•šbelonging

â•šcomfortableness

Happiness, at ease in a relationship, belonging. What an apt description. I like belonging—we belong together; we belong to each other. Sigh. I guess sometimes it’s not so hard to remember what it was like to fall in love. Ryan’s just one of those good cherries.

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Fridgie returns!

Our fridge is back online! After two weeks of a 50-degree fridge, the freezer slowly stopped working on Saturday. We emptied it (and our wonderful neighbors let us stick our food in their freezer chest!) and left it off to defrost overnight. We turned it back on and just look at the temperature now: just above freezing. And that’s on the fridge side!

Ryan is waiting to rejoice until we see if the change is permanent. Some of the freezer guts already have frost all over them again. I don’t actually know what part of the freezer they are; if I did I might be more concerned. The guts looks like this:

Is that bad?